Agartala, June 11 (IANS) In an incident that has triggered widespread concern, a 24-year-old woman employee of a private medical college and hospital in Tripura was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the institution’s campus, prompting both police and administrative investigations.The Tripura government’s Home Department on Thursday night ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident and directed that a report be submitted within 15 days.In an official order, Additional Secretary of …
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Agartala, May 28 (IANS) IPS officer of the Tripura cadre, Princee Rani, has been appointed as the Inspector General (IG) of the Border Security Force (BSF) Tripura Frontier, replacing the incumbent IG Aloke Kumar Chakraborty, officials said here on Thursday. A senior official said that her appointment follows her husband, Parshant Kumar Goyal, an IAS officer, who recently returned from central deputation and joined the Tripura administration as Secretary.Goyal is currently serving as the Secreta…
Agartala, May 25 (IANS) Tripura Police on Monday arrested four police personnel, including an Inspector and a woman Sub-Inspector, in connection with the alleged tampering and irregularities involving seized narcotic substances in the state’s Khowai district, officials said.An official said that the arrested police personnel include Inspector Ajit Debbarma, Sub-Inspectors Rajendra Reang and Sampa Das, and Assistant Sub-Inspector (Special Branch) Sachindra Debbarma.All the accused personnel wer…
Agartala, May 21 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday said that Tripura has become the first state in the country to introduce the ‘Track Me’ feature in the 112 India mobile application, aimed at enhancing the safety and security of women and elderly citizens. Addressing the passing-out parade of the newly recruited 91st and 92nd batches of recruit constables (men and women) at the KTD Singh Police Training Academy in Narsingarh, on the outskirts of Agartala, the Chief Minist…
Agartala, May 21 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister, Manik Saha on Thursday urged the police force to deal effectively with cybercrime and crimes against women and children while stressing the need for a technology-driven and people-friendly policing system in the state.Addressing the passing-out parade of the newly-recruited 91st and 92nd batches of recruit constables (men and women) at the KTD Singh Police Training Academy in Narsingarh, on the outskirts of Agartala, the Chief Minister said that po…
Agartala, May 18 (IANS) Tripura Police have arrested a security personnel and a Health Department employee and are interrogating more than 15 others after a viral video showed a woman displaying a huge amount of cash at her residence in the state’s Dhalai district, officials said on Monday. A senior police official said that police arrested Ajit Debbarma (48) and his wife, Menaka Debbarma (45), both residents of Abhoynagar on the outskirts of Agartala.Ajit Debbarma is a Rifleman of the Tripura…
Agartala/Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a proclaimed offender from Kolkata, who had been charge-sheeted in two Tripura chit fund cases, said the CBI on Wednesday. The accused Sanjit Chakraborty, Chairman and Managing Director of M/s Cosmic Negociators Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, was at large since the registration of FIR by Tripura Police in 2013, the agency said in a press release.Chakraborty, who had been absconding for 13 years, was finally arrested in Kolkata…
Agartala, May 6 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha has took a strong stand in the fight to make the state drug-free. During a meeting at the Civil Secretariat here on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said that the police administration must remain constantly vigilant to ensure that drugs do not enter the state through the railways or any other route.Various narcotics are smuggled from Myanmar and routed through Mizoram and southern Assam before reaching Tripura, often for illegal transit into n…
Chandigarh, May 5 (IANS) In a breakthrough against organised crime, Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in an operation with Central agencies and Tripura Police, has apprehended Aditya Kapoor, one of the shooters involved in the sensational murder of kabaddi promoter Kanwar Digvijay Singh, alias Rana Balachauria, State Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here. The accused, who was arrested from Agartala in Tripura and a resident of Amritsar, has a criminal background …
New Delhi/Agartala, March 31 (IANS) In a major crackdown on the smuggling and trafficking of drugs and psychotropic substances in Tripura, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has filed three prosecution complaints under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, before a court against a total of 14 accused persons. Across the three cases, the Agartala Sub-Zonal Office of the ED has frozen, seized, and provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth approximate…